Blacktown City Council - Media Alert - "Incinerator Inquiry"

MEDIA ALERT

Blacktown City Council has successfully lobbied for a parliamentary inquiry into the Energy from Waste industry.

The Dial a Dump group has applied to build one of the world’s largest Energy from Waste facilities at Eastern Creek.

The proposed waste incinerator would generate electricity by burning some 1.105 million tonnes of waste a year.

There is strong opposition to the project from surrounding residents and Blacktown City Council is opposed to the proposal, which we do not think should be approved by the NSW Government.

On Tuesday June 27, Mayor Stephen Bali and representatives of the company wanting to build the EfW plant will be giving evidence at a hearing to be held at Rooty Hill RSL from 9.00 am.

Dial a Dump will be giving their evidence at 11am, Mayor Bali will be giving his at 12.00pm and we will be calling a media conference for 12.45pm.

“There are several schools within reach of the incinerator’s emission plume, and parents have rightly told Council they are worried about the health of their children,” said the Mayor of Blacktown City, Stephen Bali.

Mayor Bali has previously made the point that, according to the proposal, the cooling system used at the plant cuts out when the temperature gets above 37 degrees, causing the entire plant to “trip” or shut down. 

“If the plant had been operating this year, it would have shut down on at least 11 days,” Mayor Bali said at the time.

Mayor Bali said:  “This is their second go, and the company wanting to burn more than a million tonnes of waste a year is yet to come up with a plan that provides maximum protection for the hundreds of thousands of people living around it.”

The proposed plant would be located near the Light Horse interchange of the M4 and M7 motorways at Eastern Creek, adjacent to the suburbs of Minchinbury, Colyton, Rooty Hill, Mount Druitt, Oxley Park, Erskine Park and Arndell Park.

Details:
Upper House inquiry into Energy from Waste
Boomerang Room, Rooty Hill RSL
Tuesday 27 June.
Hearing starts at 9.00 am.
Dial a Dump gives evidence at 11.00 am
Mayor Bali gives evidence at 12.00 noon.
Blacktown City Council is calling a media conference for 12.45 pm.